Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

Weblog from Katinka Hesselink on any lenses she may decide to make :)

Archive for May, 2009

» Got an early birthday present from the giant squid community organisers :)

Well, that’s how I’m interpreting my purple star anyhow Yes, tomorrow is my birthday – not sure I’ll be able to log in preparing for family gatherings on Sunday and Monday. First family sleepover in my ‘new’ apartment and I’m rather nervous too. One of the downsides to being single (aside from not [...]

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» Great religious and spiritual lenses – blessed by a squidangel :)

Time for me to bless some great lenses with more than a squidangel blessing, but with a link as well. These are in my favorite niche: religion and spirituality. It’s quite a collection – I guess there are many great lenses made about this topic.
Let’s start with the lens that started this post in [...]

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» How to stay Organised? A rant about planners!

I have to say, ever since I started making lenses about planners, I’ve been amazed at how hard it is to find good ones. That is: planners that are dated, that start at the beginning of the calendar year or academic year and have a horizontal writing style.
For some reason organizers often have square [...]

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» Optimizing tags on squidoo lenses

Evelyn Saenz, one of my all time favorite lensmasters – because she makes just excellent lenses – is not really into SEO. I think she’s only just catching on (sorry Evelyn). Which makes her question relevant for a lot of people of course (what would a blogger do without newby questions?)
She’s just discovered the one [...]

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» Does the order of keywords matter?

Brenda came to me with a good question the other day: Does the order of keywords matter? I gave her a long answer, I’ll give you all another long answer.
But first, the short answer is: yes, the order of keywords matters. If google can choose between two lenses with roughly the same quality link profile, [...]

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» Unique spiritual gift ideas

My spiritual gifts and products group is rather unique in that it contains mostly my own religious and spiritual products, but is open to others as well. Because my own lenses are more than half of the lenses in the group, I don’t think it unfair to present some of them in this ‘best of’ [...]

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» Personal and spiritual growth inspiration on squidoo

Out of the bottom lenses in my Spiritual growth and development group, five stood out. I selected with my usual squidangel criteria: module titles other than the default? Picture uploaded in the intro? Formatting decent (as in no broken lines for instance)? No unrelated affiliate links?
Of course I also selected by quality and content. [...]

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» Best Christian inspiration from the Christianity Headquarters

On all my larger groups I’ve got a link plexo that’s a contest: when enough people have voted I feature the top ones on my blog. Unfortunately, on my Christianity group few people have voted, so I’ll let the contest go on another month. Instead I’m featuring the 5 best lenses out of the lowest [...]

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» The funniest lenses in May

I’m looking over the plexo’s in my squidoo groups to see which lenses made it to the top. In Humor and Hilarity there’s a top 5. None of my own lenses this time.

Carrot Jokes ~~ A Bright Orange Lensography!
Snow Shoveling Humor
Border Collie Would Make a Great Vice President
German Shepherd Would Make a Great President
eBay [...]

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» Women and girls shopping for planners, prom dresses, gifts and lip gloss

Hi all, on my Women and Girls shopping group the following lenses were the most popular in the plexo in the past month or so:

Girly planners: pink or flowers (or both)
Prom Dresses for Your Shape
Natural Lip Color for Luscious Beauty!
Clever & Unique Gift Ideas for Women
Susan Faye Gift Shop For Cat Ladies

They’ve all been [...]

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